To answer Twass first, i've been living on roasted peppers of late!!! have them with practically everything! in salads on pasta in veggie chilli they are everywhere! yes i have gluten free bread occasionally but as i can't have butter i don't eat it often, because well gluten free bread isn't that nice and is in fact only edible covered in butter and jam or marmalade i do have ryvita which are 100% rye and i have them dry (yummy ) with salad. Am only allowed 1/2 a cup of oats a week otherwise porridge would have been a go to lunch. Lunches are the most difficult. I do have wheat free pasta eaten it for years but there's a limit to how much i can eat of it. Can't have Quorn or meat substitute as it's a fungi.

Answering An, pulses and beans are a bit of a no no as they are high in purines which is what raises the uric acid levels. but every so often i have some chick peas or kidney beans just because i'm at a loss at what to eat. So i'll get some humous and eat it with a raw carrot. But i found some peanut butter made from 100% peanuts with no added anything and i drip that over a banana as part of my breakfast. I have tuna and cod/haddock but fish has to be limited to twice a week apparently so.....

I am allowed vegetable fats so olive oil mainly. I also have a raft of supplements i have to take vits A, C, D, cod liver oil and iodine.

The problem is i have my multiple problems, the condition for which i had all the operations which writes out any brassicas, fungi, wheat, refined carbohydrate, yeast, sugar, mould of any sort (like blue cheese for example) orange juice. I haven't eaten any of them since the 1990s. (apart from a garlic mushroom binge once a year! ) Then i have this recent uric acid nightmare which wipes out any food with purines. Which appears to be everything except strawberries and lettuce (i exaggerate but if you're interested the list of food with purines in is just horrific).

Things i have to eat every day because they are considered good for lowering uric acid (i'm doing everything to avoid hospital again i'd rather die than go back) are strawberries, banana, tart cherry juice, my lime juice, 3 litres of water, 4 cups of coffee, and for some reason no/low fat yoghurt is supposed to lower uric acid levels. It's a bastard because i've never done any of the things that cause high uric acid level like drink alcohol eat loads of shell fish and red meat etc all i did was have extended periods of fasting in hospital when i was on nil by mouth for weeks at a time and this is what's caused it

I was in M&S earlier and they had this £10 deal of this giant hand made pizza and a bottle of prosecco and i felt like grabbing it off the shelf and bingeing in the car park without even cooking it!!!!! I sometimes buy things i want to eat and make my mum eat them She lives on cake and double cream and only ever gets ill if she comes in contact with salad or lowers her butter and cream intake, her cholesterol is lower than mine and my GPs !!!! I'm so jealous!